Hospitals To Expand, Ambulances To Be Replaced In £1.6bn boost
HEALTH boards in Scotland are set to benefit from a record investment of £1.6 billion over the next three years to improve equipment and facilities.
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HEALTH boards in Scotland are set to benefit from a record investment of £1.6 billion over the next three years to improve equipment and facilities.
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A new set of quality standards for nursing homes across the country is due to be launched by the Health Information and Quality Authority this morning.
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SIPTU, which represents 1200 emergency ambulance personnel, has served strike notice on the Health Service Executive.
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A day care centre which looks after adults with learning difficulties has won a temporary reprieve from closure.
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Patients and politicians in Wales have voiced concern about devolution eroding the shared use of public services such as health with England.
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A Boss at a cerebral palsy treatment centre backed by Catherine Zeta Jones has walked out over planned job cuts, according to people who use the centre.
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Unnecessary child protection checks and other bureaucratic barriers are wasting the potential of volunteers in public services, Gordon Brown’s volunteering tsar, Lady Neuberger, will say today.
The Liberal Democrat peer, brought in by the prime minister when he took office to be the government’s volunteering champion, will urge hospitals and other providers to break down their resistance to using volunteers.
In the first of a series of reports, on health and social care services, Neuberger says that too often organisations are demanding Criminal Records Bureau checks on all potential helpers.
“This is clearly unnecessary. Checks should only be undertaken where a volunteer might spend time alone with young people or vulnerable adults. Managers need to show some common sense and stop, for example, requiring CRB checks for people working on hospital radio stations,” the report says.
“Insurance and other legal considerations do seem to have created a level of risk-aversion throughout all management levels in health and social care services.”
Neuberger, a health spokeswoman in the Lords, was one of two senior Lib Dem peers brought in as so-called goats (as in Government of All the Talents) by Brown, along with Lord Lester, the lawyer who advises on constitutional reform.
Read MoreA Charity that helps people with learning difficulties is having to cut some of its services because of a lack of funds.
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The deputy manager of a Derby care home stole nearly £5,000 by raiding the bank accounts of three elderly and disabled residents.
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Police searching a Jersey care home where it is claimed children were raped and flogged in underground chambers are expecting to break into a second bricked-up cellar this week.
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